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it is interesting that @Interested was willing to spend time on nitpicking nuances of efficacy of balakot strikes, but chose not to answer the larger question.
for the newbies, answer is India, India and India. ever since nukes came onto the scene, it has happened only thrice between two nuclear armed countries depending on how you count it.
1999 - Op safed sagar during kargil conflict
2019 - Balakot strikes
2025 - Op Sindoor
there is 1969- Ruso-china war, china went nuclear in 1964, but aircrafts were not used.
so a total of three instances, of which India-pak are involved in all three. that's how rare these type of ops are.
what this means is that there is no lessons to be learnt from other countries, what ever India-pak does is the rule book for this type of scenario.
There's one more instance you missed - IAF Mirages were used to take out some Pakistani positions along the LoC in 2002. A ground team did the targeting with laser devices.